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Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice

Dutta, Prajit K. - The MIT Press

Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science,...

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Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce

Camp, L. Jean - The MIT Press

transactions. Underlying each system is a set of assumptions, particularly about trust and risk. To evaluate systems, and thus to … determine one's own risks, requires an understanding of the dimensions of trust: security, privacy, and reliability. In this … book Jean Camp focuses on two major yet frequently overlooked issues in the design of Internet commerce systems—trust and …

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Critical Issues in Taxation and Development

Fuest, Clemens (contributor); Zodrow, George R. (contributor) - The MIT Press

Many developing countries find it difficult to raise the revenue required to provide such basic public services as education, health care, and infrastructure. Complicating the policy challenges of taxation in developing countries are issues that most developed countries do not face, including...

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Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Health Economics

Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - The MIT Press

Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance students’ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market...

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Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won't Work

Battistella, Roger M. - The MIT Press

In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas--or we can acknowledge today’s demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy...

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Health Economics

Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - The MIT Press

This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers’ economic...

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Chaos and Organization in Health Care

Lee, Thomas; H., M.D.; Mongan, James; J., M.D. - The MIT Press

One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an...

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Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care

Parthasarathy, Shobita - The MIT Press

In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as...

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Incentives and Choice in Health Care

Sloan, Frank A. (contributor); Kasper, Hirschel (contributor) - The MIT Press

A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return pharmaceutical manufacturers...

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Chaos and Organization in Health Care

Lee, Thomas H.; Mongan, James J. - The MIT Press

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